After Quote by Kevin Brownlow

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land…

— Eduardo Galeano

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

— Marya Hornbacher

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this…

— Tillie Olsen

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

— Erin Gruwell

I learnt silence from the talkative

— Khalil Gibran

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation.…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

— Nicholas Sparks

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

— Rachel Simon